Article From Around the O, January 20, 2021

Sabrina Gimenez loved movies, but she couldn’t imagine a future in film until a light bulb moment during her senior year at the University of Oregon.

For a film studies class, she had created a short, stop-motion animated film about two bicycles that go on a date on campus, culminating in a dorm-room tryst. As she pieced the film together, she found herself completely enthralled. “All of a sudden, I look at my clock on the computer, and six hours had passed right before my very eyes, and I was like, ‘How did this happen?’” 

Fast-forward seven years, and the 2013 graduate (English, cinema studies) is now working in Hollywood as an assistant film editor. She has helped produce scripted movies, including director Miguel Arteta’s 2020 comedy Like a Boss, the upcoming Netflix comedy Yes Day, and season two of the critically acclaimed Hulu teen drama series, Love, Victor. 

Listen to Career Instructor of Narrative Production and Writer/Director Jerell Rosales' interview on SiriusXM Radio's "AFFIRMATIVE REACTION with Xorje Olivares" (Ch 127 • SiriusXM Progress).

Jerell and Xorje discuss filmmaking from the QPOC perspective and the inspiration behind his short film These Things Take Time, part of the feature-length compilation, The American Boys (released by NQV Media available on Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon Germany, and Vimeo Worldwide).

Cinema Studies Career Instructor and Writer/Director Jerell Rosales' award-winning narrative short film, These Things Take Time, will be distributed in a feature-length compilation of LGBTQ+ stories, The American Boys, released by NQV Media.

Calling all filmmakers!

DisOrient Asian American Film Festival is accepting entries until December 31, 2020:

• We are looking for films by, for and/or about Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders.
• We accept short and feature-length narrative and documentary films, including animation and music videos.

Space is still available in the Winter Term 2021 Cinema Studies courses listed below! 

Please check classes.uoregon.edu for updates on seat availability of these courses and others in the major.

Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Italian Sergio Rigoletto has published a new book titled Le norme traviate. Saggi sul genere e sulla sessualità nel cinema e nella televisione italiana (Meltemi).

Registration begins November 23, 2020.  Read below for more information and course descriptions!

Courses below are open to all majors!

Cinema Studies Majors:  Visit the course list page for the complete list of courses and how they satisfy the major.

The Remixing Media, ©ritiquing Culture Freshman Interest Group (FIG) announces a "call for entries" to artists for the UO ©ritical A®t Show

Beginning December 4th (specifics coming soon) The Remixing Media, ©ritiquing Culture Freshman Interest Group will host the 4th annual UO ©ritical A®t Show, which is an event that brings together student and community artists. Due to Covid-related uncertainty, this year's show will be a virtual experience.

We are accepting digital submissions from artists through November 29, 2020.

The event is organized and curated by a group of 20 first-year students in a FYP (first year program), the FIG Assistant, Ellie Reisman, and their instructor Andre´ Sirois (DJ food stamp).

Associate Professor Dong Hoon Kim’s new article, "Comrade Kim Goes Global: Refiguring North Korean Cinema in a Global Context," was published in the Fall 2020 issue of Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context.